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Iran Claims To Have Arrested Several Suspects Behind Recent Bombing

According to Istate television,  Iranian security agencies apprehended 12 Suspects from 6 different provinces on Friday on suspicion of being involved in two bomb blasts that killed about 100 people attending a memorial service for a dead military leader.

The interior minister announced on Friday that numerous suspects involved in the terrorist attack that killed and wounded 300 + people in the Iranian city of Kerman had been taken into custody. 

 

Iranian news agency IRNA quoted  Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi as stating, "Some people involved in the attack have been apprehended, and information about them will be published later by security services." 

 

Ahmad Vahidi continued to say that the intelligence services' outstanding work made the terrorists' detentions possible.

Two explosions killed 88 people and injured 288 on Wednesday at a Kerman cemetery where crowds had gathered to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of Soleimani by US forces, according to a government report. 

 

2 ISIL  terrorists reportedly set off explosive belts in the crowd. 

 

Earlier reports said two backpacks filled with explosives were remotely detonated at the entrance to the cemetery. 

According to a reliable source, the Iranian news agency IRNA confirmed on Thursday that a suicide bomber was the cause of at least one of the explosions in Kerman. 

 

The source said that Security footage and other data showed that a male suicide bomber was definitely to blame for the initial blast.




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